Re: OT: FSCK 'em!

In article <timberwoof-6420B1.00452031082005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Timberwoof <timberwoof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <1125468545.716245.48570@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "MuahMan" <muahman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Get Real, the rest of the world is useless. We are the fucking World
> > Police, and The World's Welfare check. Who signed us up for this job.
> > I do think Argentina offered to donate some gas though.... if only to
> > keep us from invading....
>
> So stop being the world's police; you suck at it (Viet Nam, Rwanda,
> Afghanistan,
> Iraq).
>
I agree. When the *** hits the fan over there (where ever over there
is), let the neighbors take care of it or not as they see fit.

> And stop pretending you're the world's welfare check. That only works as
> internal propaganda to people who don't pay attention. Once compared against
> per-capita spending of other countries, the US falls way behind. Remember how
> Japan and Germany got into a bidding war over who could donate more relief to
> the Christmas Tsunami victims? The US generously offered $15M; Germany and
> Japan
> each quickly topped $500M.
>
You conveniently forgot the charitable donations that were sent from
this country. I know you didn't intend to, huh?

> So you're the world's bully. Hey, what will you do when all that foreign
> debt
> you're piling up to pay for the Iraq war comes due? Hey, do you know who owns
> that debt? Do you care? Probably not.

Yep, that is a problem. One we could certainly help by letting the rest
of the world punt their own problems. We produce enough to keep us
going, and we outproduce most, if not all other countries in the way of
food.

If we could get you all out of our wallets, we would be in pretty good
shape.
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